Building Memory Skills

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Learning Needs of a Tier 3 Reader

  • Labeled - this affects motivation and self esteem
  • Health and Learning concerns
  • Poor memory and organizing skills

Memory

  • In order to read fluently students must learn the letter sounds to an automatic level – see it and say it immediately




How Memory Works


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Adapted from Making It Stick: Memorable Strategies to enhance Learning. By: Regina G. Richards (2008). International Dyslexia Association: Baltimore, MD.


An Acronym for Memory


  • M- odeled I/WE/YOU basic and one rule at a time
  • E – xaggerate / humor for relaxation
  • M – ultisensory
  • O – rganized by stacking you allow students to see phonemic patterns in language; prior knowledge- build on the known
  • R – eherse/ review/ recall
  • Y – ou – needs to be authentic for learner – so they can get an emotional connection and make long term associations